I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is limited?

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.